Diplomatic Missions: Unpaid Congestion Charges and Parking Fines

Lord Berkeley Excerpts

Tuesday 5th July 2011 Lords Chamber

[Earl Attlee]

My Lords, I have had a brush with Transport for London over the congestion charge and, unfortunately, I found it to be deadly efficient.

[Lord Berkeley]

My Lords, can the noble Earl tell the House whether the President of the United States and his very long and low-slung car—which went aground in Dublin, we are told—and his retinue of 40 other cars paid the congestion charge when they came to London last month?

[Earl Attlee]

My Lords, I expect that they probably claimed diplomatic immunity.